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A Lesson from the South for Fiscal Policy in the US and Other Advanced Countries
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2011
deficits, but by 2011 had come to feel constrained by inherited debt to withdraw fiscal stimulus. Chile has achieved … so. Chile has a rule that targets a structural budget balance. But rules are not credible by themselves. In Europe and … the U.S., official forecasts are overly optimistic in booms; so revenue is spent rather than saved. Chile avoids such …
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The Taxation of Internationally Portable Pensions : Fiscal Issues and Policy Options
Genser, Bernd - 2016
Pension policy reforms across the world in recent decades are a reaction to the changing demographic and socioeconomic environment. While pension scheme redesign has received much attention, the tax treatment of contributions, returns, and benefits of retirement savings remains mostly unattended...
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Fiscal policy, income redistribution and poverty reduction in Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay
Lustig, Nora - In: Contemporary issues in development economics, (pp. 11-18). 2016
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On the size of fiscal multipliers: A counterfactual analysis
Kuckuck, Jan; Westermann, Frank - 2013
The Structural Vector Auto-regression (SVAR) approach to estimating fiscal multipliers, following the seminal paper by Blanchard and Perotti (2002), has been widely applied in the literature. In our pa-per we discuss the interpretation of these estimates and suggest that they are more useful for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343287
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Triste Aussichten nach der Wahl: Haushaltskonsolidierung erfordert Ausgabenkürzungen und Steuererhöhungen
Bach, Stefan; Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 37, pp. 624-633
Nach der Bundestagswahl schlägt die Stunde der finanzpolitischen Wahrheit. Wer auch immer die nächste Bundesregierung stellt: Der Kassensturz nach der Wahl wird zeigen, dass kaum noch finanzpolitischer Handlungsspielraum besteht. Die öffentlichen Haushalte haben sich im Zuge der Rezession...
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Fiscal policy implementation in Azerbaijan before, during and after the oil boom
Aliyev, Khatai; Gasimov, Ilkin - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 1, pp. 81-94
This study reviews Azerbaijan's fiscal policy implementation and discusses its changes before, during and after the oil boom. Specifically, the period prior to 2005 is considered pre-boom, 2005-2014 is considered the oil boom and the years after 2014 are considered the post oil boom period. It...
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Haushaltskonsolidierung: Staatsausgaben durchforsten, Steuern erhöhen, Wachstum stärken
Bach, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 1, pp. 10-26
Die zentrale finanzpolitische Aufgabe der kommenden Jahre wird die Konsolidierung der öffentlichen Haushalte sein. Auch nach Bewältigung der Rezession werden weiterhin "strukturelle" Defizite in einer Größenordnung von drei bis vier Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts bestehen bleiben....
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Spend-and-tax adjustments and the sustainability of the government's intertemporal budget constraint
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah; Milas, Costas - 2010
We apply non-linear error-correction models to the empirical testing of the sustainability of the government's intertemporal budget constraint. Our empirical analysis, based on Italy, shows that the Italian government is meeting its intertemporal budget constraint, in spite of the high levels of...
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On the size of fiscal multipliers : a counterfactual analysis
Kuckuck, Jan; Westermann, Frank - 2013
The Structural Vector Auto-regression (SVAR) approach to estimating fiscal multipliers, following the seminal paper by Blanchard and Perotti (2002), has been widely applied in the literature. In our pa-per we discuss the interpretation of these estimates and suggest that they are more useful for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764859
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Improving the fiscal framework to enhance growth in an era of fiscal consolidation in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert W.; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013
The challenge for fiscal policy in Slovakia is to achieve fiscal consolidation in a way which supports the fragile recovery and protects spending on areas which are important for re-embarking on a trajectory of high trend growth and underpinning a catch-up in living standards. While the recently...
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